We've also learned that computers will operate everything soon (your TV, etc), and that the new Microsoft Vista looks pretty swish, but that they better send a techie out with purchase or make cheap housecalls.

But, after the rows and rows of new wave, all this tech's got our heads a-spinning. We're craving a rotary phone. A Casio calculator watch. A TV without a remote. Maybe even a 80s Ghettoblaster. But then again, we at UJ have always been partial to blasts from the past.

If you too urge to revisit times gone by, but don't want to spend a load on eBay buying vintage gadgets, we've been told that the recently opened Kinetica Museum in Spitalfields is quite therapeutic (art and devices made from clever ideas rather than processing power).